Latest Internet traffic stats, which I reproduce below via A VC, are stunning.
Page views last month, largest web properties, from Media Metrix:
Yahoo! – 43,700MM
Time Warner – 31,600MM (AOL is roughly 70% of this)
Microsoft – 21,800MM (MSN is part of this)
eBay – 10,900MM
MySpace – 9,600MM
Google – 6,300MM
* MySpace, which didn’t even exist 2 years ago, has more page views than Google
* MySpace is growing at 50% per quarter
* It’s still a US-centric phenomenon. Can/will it scale internationally?
A VC makes has the salient takeaway:
“Who is the smartest guy on the Internet right now?
Maybe not Sergey and Larry.
Maybe Rupert Murdoch.
Does $500mm sound like a bargain? It does to me.”
To that I add a concluding observation that in this field, there really is no long-term stability whatsoever. A startup launched today can really challenge the biggest players with incredible speed.
